The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders Part 29

Point Blane, after Sir Gilbert Blane of the Naval Medical Board.

Cape Shield, after Commissioner Shield.

Cape Grey, after General Grey, Commandant at Capetown.

Point Middle.

Mount Alexander.

Point Alexander.

Round Hill Island.

Caledon Bay, after the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope.

Cape Arnhem, extremity of Arnhem's Land.

Mount Saunders.

Mount Dundas, Melville Isles--After Dundas, Viscount Melville, a colleague of the younger Pitt.

Mount Bonner.

Drimmie Head.

Cape Wilberforce, after W. Wilberforce, M.P., the slave-emanc.i.p.ator, who was a friend of Flinders.

Melville Bay, after Viscount Melville.

Harbour Rock.

Point Dundas.

Bromby Islands, after the Reverend F. Bromby, of Hull, a cousin of Mrs.

Flinders.

Malay Road.

Pomba.s.so's Island, after the chief of the Malay praus.

Cotton's Island, after Captain Cotton of the East India Company's Directorate.

English Company Islands, after the East India Company.

Wigram Island.

Truant Island, "from its lying away from the rest."

Inglis Island.

Bosanquet Island.

Astell Island.

Mallison Island.

Point Arrowsmith, after the map-publisher.

Cape Newbald, Newbald Island--After Henrietta Newbald, nee Flinders, who introduced him to Pasley.

Arnhem Bay.

Wessell Islands, name found on a Dutch chart.

Point Dale.

Wreck Reef.

BIBLIOGRAPHY.

A. Ma.n.u.sCRIPT SOURCES.

1. The Flinders Papers, in the Melbourne Public Library, consisting of a letter-book of Flinders (August 31, 1807, to May 31, 1814); ma.n.u.script narrative of the voyage of the Francis; miscellaneous notes and memoranda by friends and relatives, a short ma.n.u.script memoir, and a large quant.i.ty of transcripts of journals, family letters, etc. This material is not at present numbered, and allusions to it in the text of the book are therefore made by the general reference, "Flinders Papers."

2. Decaen Papers, in the Munic.i.p.al Library of Caen, Normandy. General Decaen's ma.n.u.scripts fill 149 volumes. The doc.u.ments relating to Flinders, including a translation of portions of the c.u.mberland's log, are princ.i.p.ally in volumes 10, 84, 92, and 105. Peron's important report upon the British colony at Port Jackson is also in this collection, which includes many original letters of Flinders.

3. Archives Nationales, Paris, Marine BB4, 996 to 999, contains a quant.i.ty of ma.n.u.scripts relative to Baudin's expeditions, including reports and letters by him, and many miscellaneous papers.

4. The Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, nouveaux acquisitions, France, contains many doc.u.ments relative to Baudin's expedition, including the diary of the commander.

5. The Archives du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris contain reports and doc.u.ments concerning the scientific work of Baudin's expedition.

6. The Depot de la Marine, service hydrographique, Paris, cartons 6, 22, and 23, contains many reports upon the Australian coast made to Captain Baudin by his officers.

7. The Library of the Royal Colonial Inst.i.tute, London, contains Westall's original drawings executed on the Investigator voyage.

Photographed copies are in the Mitch.e.l.l Library, Sydney.

8. The Mitch.e.l.l Library, Sydney, contains Smith's ma.n.u.script journal of the Investigator voyage, and many Flinders and Franklin papers, as cited in the text.

B. PRINTED DOc.u.mENTS.

Most of the Flinders material contained in the Record Office, London, and the British Museum, is printed in Volumes 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 of the Historical Records of New South Wales, edited by F.M. Bladen (Sydney, 1893 to 1901). Copies of other letters and doc.u.ments, mainly from the same source, are in course of publication by the Commonwealth Government, under the direction of the Commonwealth Library Committee, edited by Dr.

F. Watson.

C. WORKS BY FLINDERS.

FLINDERS, MATTHEW, A Voyage to Terra Australis, 2 volumes, London, 1814.

The princ.i.p.al authority for the voyages of the navigator.

FLINDERS, M., Observations on the Coasts of Van Diemen's Land, etc., London, 1801.

FLINDERS, M., Papers on the Marine Barometer and on Variations of the Mariner's Compa.s.s, printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, London, 1806 and 1807.

FLINDERS, MATTHEW, Reise nach dem Austral-Lande, in der Absicht die Entdeckung desselben zu vollenden unter nommen in den Jaksen, 1801, 1802 and 1803. Aus dem Englischen, von F. Gotze. Weimar, 1816. A German translation of the Voyage to Terra Australis. An accompanying map is of great interest, as it essays for the first time to indicate by colours the portions of the Australian coast discovered by the English, the Dutch and the French. The map errs with regard to Kangaroo Island, in attributing the discovery of the north to the French and the south to the English. The reverse was the case.

MATTHEW FLINDERS, Ontdekkings-reis naar het Groote Zuidland anders Nieuw Holland; besigtiging van het zelve in 1801, 1802 en 1803; noodlottige schipbreak, en gevangenschap van 6 1/2 jaar by de Franschen op Mauritius.

Uit het Engelsch. 4 volumes, Haarlem, 1815 and 1816. A Dutch translation of the Voyage to Terra Australis.

D. OTHER PRINTED BOOKS.

BARROW, SIR JOHN, articles in Quarterly Review, 1810 and 1817, strongly condemning the work of Peron and Freycinet (see below), and championing the cause of Flinders. Barrow had access to material in possession of the Admiralty, sent to England from Mauritius by Flinders.

BECKE, L., and JEFFERY, W., Naval Pioneers of Australia, London, 1899.

Very useful.

DALRYMPLE, ALEXANDER, Collection of Voyages and Discoveries in the South Pacific Ocean, 2 volumes, London, 1770.

EDINBURGH REVIEW, 1807, reviews with commendation Flinders' "Observations upon the Marine Barometer."

GRANT, Narrative of a Voyage of Discovery, London, 1803.

LABILLIERE, F.P., Early History of the Colony of Victoria, 2 volumes, London, 1878 to 1879. Prints extracts from Flinders' ma.n.u.script journals relating to Port Phillip.

LAUGHTON, SIR J.K., article on Flinders in Dictionary of National Biography.

MAIDEN, J.H., Sir Joseph Banks, the Father of Australia, Sydney, 1909.

FOWLER, T.W., "The Work of Captain Matthew Flinders in Port Phillip,"

Victorian Geographical Journal, 1912. Good topographical account.